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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to improve the quality and comfort of the rail carriages on the Dublin to Rosslare rail line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34073/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average annual cost of keeping a person in prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 818. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time CORU takes to recognise professional qualifications for each of the professions it regulates where those qualifications are from outside the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application for CORU recognition of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 820. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the total number of individuals, by grade and/or profession, employed by the HSE for each of the years 2015 to 2024, in tabular form. [34049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in increasing the number of clinical trials across the health sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the financial cost to date of the May 2021 cyberattack on the HSE; the measures now in place to address the exposed vulnerabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34051/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I totally get that there are differences between schools. Even within the primary school sector, I made the point that an old school that is very difficult to heat is totally different to a new modern build school. However, a lot of the costs will be the same. There is obviously a question about the overall quantum and there is certainly a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for taking this on behalf of the Minister for Education and Youth. Listening to him respond to the last matter, I understand his passion for primary schools, which we all share. Primary schools are at the hub of all our communities and we often marvel at the work done by principals in primary schools who not only are they leading in the education of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wind Energy Generation (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the progress made to date under Powering Prosperity – Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy, which was launched by his Department in 2024. [33052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how the southeast regional enterprise plan has acted to ensure that the green economy becomes an engine for future job creation and economic growth in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33051/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The search is on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis na finnéithe. Having been on the previous Oireachtas committee for the past five years, I am afraid that there is a Groundhog Day element to some of the discussion because some of these are big picture issues we have been talking about for a while. The challenge with the legislation is that ultimately we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I am thinking about the ambition as well as one key element.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: What is the best model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious that I am speaking on the record on this, but when talking about public service media, what are the countries we should look at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I again put on the record that Finland has always been a place that we have said we should benchmark ourselves against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: This follows on from Deputy Ó Snodaigh's questions. As someone who grew up with S4C coming in to me from the Welsh coast, it is also a useful model in terms of looking at the objectives that were set out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I want to talk about the streaming levy, which it is critical to put in place. We had years of debate and I thought it was a settled argument. We had a discussion only yesterday evening about the net effect of the cost on the streamers. The committee might look at the fact that the cost of streaming services in Ireland is higher for the consumer than is the case anywhere else, especially...